@carolhoward

We can hold two events in our minds:

1. a war was started and a head of state was deposed, and

2. Women and girls were treated monstrously, and they need justice, the predators need to be punished by the law.

Lots of pretty words, signifying nothing

Also… AI is really good/bad at BS

I’m trying to design a website and I feel like I’m spending all of my time rewording AI BS. I requested no AI… but it’s not letting me do anything on my own

Google, Meta, and Reddit complied with some of the requests

AI is trying to replicate what happens with human brain activity, but we have no idea what is happening to our brains when we sleep… that’s 1/3 of our lives. We know that it is a sort of trashcan, memory solidifier, and portal to the subconscious… But most of it is a mystery.

Nothing to worry about here…

I loved Diane Keaton’s work…. But… do we really have to hear it from Woody Allen?

Scene from my hometown in Florida.

Camino art

Left-leaning friends, please note that we’re not all the same. Religious people have been a part of suffragist, civil rights, feminist, lgbtq, and peace movements for a very long time

The media was doing a really good job with delineating white evangelical Christianity as a particular segment… for about a year? Now they seem to be painting with a broad brush again

Seems consistent. The administration has been working hard to make bribery an acceptable and expected part of being a part of this country

Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash

Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

What a good reminder!

I feel like I’m stuck in a drama triangle with a toxic narcissist… and I don’t know how to get out because the narcissist is the president and the drama envelopes our whole country

Welp, that doom's not gonna scroll itself

All my clergy friends are declaring that they do not agree with shooting someone. It’s a strange world when liberal ministers feel that they must explain that they think shooting someone in the neck in front of his children is wrong

I’ve always had an off-the-grid, homesteader impulse… but it gets stronger with every story I hear about AI

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THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . .

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The saddest!

They didn’t think I existed outside Twitter

Someone told me that they thought I had disappeared…

I went back to a bigger canvas. It feels good… working on this lava cave I explored with my brother in Hawaii…

Trump can’t promise any troops to Zelensky. He’s too busy using the military to occupy the US.

There’s the utopian promise of universal income for all those who no longer have job, but we can’t even get the billionaires to pay as much taxes as their office assistants.

Have we reached peak capitalism? There’s the idea that the further one is from the person doing the labor makes the most money. (The worker makes the least, the manager makes a little more, the CEO makes the most). With AI, the CEO can get rid of the laborer altogether.

Congratulations on the new call!

How are you all coping?

Some days, it feels like an act of resistance. Other days, it feels like I’m being a coward. But it’s all I muster right now.